Mayo Clinic
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Mayo doesn't care if you are in pain
Mayo only prescribes pain meds if you are dying. I say this from personal experience. I am a patient at Mayo in North Phoenix. Neither my GI nor PCP at Mayo prescribes pain meds now that im past my surgeries and had my colon taken out. Even though my severe refractory disease no longer responds to treatment and I am in pain, they couldn't care less. My PCP can't even look me in the face and say I am not allowed because I work at Mayo. Instead, she offers a 3-week program to learn about alternative methods, as if I hadn't already tried everything under the sun. The program requires you to be on the Mayo campus every day, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., for three weeks. It's insulting, this pcp knows I have lost several part-time jobs bc of my pain, and the little amount of work that I have now doesn't pay unless I complete the job. When she looks at me and says useless responses at every appointment, it makes me feel sick—fake doctor. Save your money, go somewhere else.